For days, Varya had been on the fence about involving her son in her union with Ebari. It's not that she didn't want Ebari and Basil to have anything to do with each other, but her feelings were complicated since it was a union that was meant to be on paper only and not one regarding their hearts.
Seeing that her son was still only a baby and he wouldn't remember this part of his life anyway, she decided that Solana would be allowed to bring him to the elopement ceremony just so they could have witnesses.
However, things got a little bit more complicated when the royal advisors to the emperors decided that they would also be witnesses to the ceremony. Ebari and Varya had discussed it at length and they concluded that it was because of the rumors swirling around that brought to question Ebari's sexuality.
